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The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is …
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From the World Bank to the Occupy Movement, support for greater citizen participation in social policy decisions has become ubiquitous. This paper argues that existing typologies of participation are problematic in that they do not recognise the plurality of competing participatory logics that...
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/3 and 2010/11 and (b) whether this effect changed after the introduction of Choice policy in 2006 which gave patients the … right to a wider choice of hospital. For AMI and hip fracture, hospitals with more rivals had higher mortality at the … market structure predated the introduction of Choice. Market structure had no effect on stroke mortality. …
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Through a simple thought experiment, this paper shows that there must be a shared foundation of mathematics, information science, natural science, social science, and theology. The thought experiment is to ask a volunteer to write down an arbitrary real number between 0 and 1 with many digits....
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. Choice is a central concept in economics and other fields of social science, yet there is no corresponding concept of choice … in modern physics. This article suggests that by introducing the concept of choice to the existing framework of physics …
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The arrow-of-time phenomena are everywhere in the physical world, biological systems, and human society. Despite its great importance in physics, the second law of thermodynamics can only successfully explain small percentages of these arrow-of-time phenomena in the physical world, and generally...
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Why would social science need the help from quantum mechanics? First, there are many unanswerable questions in social science. Are financial markets predictable? How to predict the financial markets? These important questions are not answerable in the existing framework of finance or economics....
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effects in terms of the cash substitution. We find that rewards may significantly modify choice for card payments. Their …
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in the manual, including: the choice of gross output versus value added productivity measures; the need for independence …
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This paper examines choice of kindergarten by mothers of different socio-economic status (SES) for children aged 3 … on convenience when making choices of kindergarten, the significance of SES in their choice and views, and issues of …
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